Google actively blocking Aurora Store would be much worse than them simply changing their backend. The latter can likely be quickly resolved while the former might lead to a cat and mouse game, where it gets increasingly difficult for Aurora Store to continue to work.

LTT was not the only ones ditching honey at the time, long before the 2024 honey scandal.

The only real news was that honey was/is only showing/setting their own worse coupons, even if another coupon would provide a better deal.

What they are trying to say is Steam gift cards might not be able to be activated by physical stores (e.g. convenience market) at some point in time. Physical stores might stop selling them even if they still have them. Almost any stores will run out of cards way before this happens.

Edit: Valve might still support activating them, but the stores software might drop support after a few years (or months, idk).

As you said: Once activated gift cards will likely be able to be activated for a few years, at the very least (legal requirement), likely longer.

Edit 2: Obviously there’s no real reason to care about this. If you need physical gift cards, buy them now.

I keep a single bill in my phone case for emergencies (be it an actual emergency or I just want to eat at some place which only takes cash).

If my phone battery runs out I’m stranded anyway, since I can’t call anyone or use my public transport ticket.

Don’t trust a VPN kill switch, they can fail. Bind your torrent client to your VPN network interface.

Yes, but you should use a reverse proxy for anything open to the internet. If you use a reverse proxy (without passing X-Forwarded-…), Plex and Jellyfin should have feature parity with this change.

Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer.

In my opinion they should be safe legally because extensions are developed and distributed separately.

But I don’t think companies like Kakao care for that. If they DMCA (or sue) Mihon devs, they’d have to de-anonymize themselves to properly fight the claim. If not, at least their website or source code repo could get taken down. If they’ve used Discord or a similar platform, chats could be used to identify them.

Ryujinx, a Nintendo Switch emulator, stopped development a year or so ago. As far as we know, it was developed cleanly without doing anything illegal. But Nintendo somehow found the developer (in Brazil I believe) and threatened them so they folded. Nintendo didn’t even need to sue them.

It’s not even piracy. The license permits redistribution and profiting of it.

The issue is that this increases the risk of Mihon getting shut down. Mihon devs don’t make any money. Nobody profits of those downstream developers using the name of the original project to make money besides them. It’ll just result in Mihon ceasing to exist.

Better back up your list somehow in case they go down.

Given the list is local Mihon would continue to work for the foreseeable future. The first thing to break are the extensions which doesn’t impact exporting the reading list.

If an entity makes money using a name similar to Mihon, rightsholders like Kakao are more likely to issue a cease and desist.

Kakao likely doesn’t care to differentiate between the original developers who don’t make any money and the other entity using a similar name. They might even think both projects are from the same people. Thus the downstream making money threatens the existence of the original project.

Mihon does support local sources.

https://mihon.app/docs/guides/local-source/

OpPS does not do interviews atm, so I’d recommend interviewing for RED.

Iirc it’s possible to include Google Maps traffic data as an overlay map on OsmAnd.

If you can solder I’d say most mice are easily fixable. The most common defect for mice are the switches, which are usually quite simple to desolder, as there aren’t any components near them.

E.g. I don’t have much experience soldering and it took me under an hour replacing both switches on the G Pro Wireless as well as the battery. I’ve bought this mouse used about 5 years ago and I wouldn’t be surprised if it lasted another 5 years.

Edit: The annoying part is the screws being below the feet, so you have to replace them after opening the mouse. But it’s all screwed in.

The benchmarks go against the narrative that Windows and Linux are pretty much equal in performance. I’ve read regularly that Linux is “often” faster than Windows for gaming, especially from more recent Linux users.

5 years ago, 15% performance difference were the expected performance loss through DXVK and wine/proton, so these benchmarks would’ve been the expected result.

Unless they didn’t enable file extensions to actually show, so an “.nfo” could actually be a “.nfo.exe”.

It does not seem to be the case here, but I really would be careful with double clicking untrusted files. Opening them through a media player directly is a much safer option.

That’s why private torrent sites & Usenet Indexers are mostly ignored by law enforcement. There’s bigger fish to catch than going after a minority who goes through the trouble of downloading first and then watching it. Not to mention the even smaller part who automates their downloading through the likes of *arr.

I’d argue torrent streaming (Streamio) is a major reason why many public torrent sites died over the last few years: Streaming and the big amount of users coming for the convenience paints a much bigger target on sites.

Torrents don’t do live streams. E.g. watching recordings of football matches is not the same as live, and free sites often struggle at peak times.

German releases by OCH groups are already shared widely through Usenet and private torrent sites, as OCH is such a big source of pirated content in Germany.

So yes, you’re free to share OCH releases to public sites. ZeroTwo releases usually include subtitles for all available languages so they might’ve a wider appeal than german-speaking countries.

Make sure you’re VPN & torrent client is properly set up, i.e. you’re torrent client is bound to the VPN interface.

I personally stick to private torrent sites as there’s less eyes on them given them being relatively small [1]. With so few people torrenting in Germany the speeds aren’t always great though. That’s why I mainly use Usenet.

[1] https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2

Current Pixels sadly no longer have a headphone jack.

The Pixel 8as battery can be replaced through the back side, but the 8 & 8 Pro battery can only be replaced by removing the screen first. Idk about Pixel 9/10(a/Pro).

GrapheneOS is like any other Android for things like data transfer. Plug in via USB or your preferred wireless protocol.